REPRESENTATION OF SOLO CLARINET MUSIC BY PHYSICAL MODELING SYNTHESIS

A physical modeling synthesizer is developed and used to parametrically represent digital audio recordings of clarinet soloists. Empirical data, in the form of acoustic impedance measurements, are incorporated in the model definition. Reed dynamics are also included. Algorithms which calculate con-trol parameters from source recordings are presented and ex-amples of both the impedance measurements and the synthe-sis output are provided. The synthesis results give further sup-port to the idea that music can, in certain circumstances, be adequately represented by a few low bandwidth control pa-rameters. Additionally, the governing equations of clarinet physical modeling are briefly reviewed. Index Terms — music, modeling, signal synthesis 1